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Design:Unfiltered

Bi-weekly Live Podcast/video cast on LinkedIn discussing all things design, in an unfiltered way. THREE design recruiters hosting + 1 weekly special guest, fun and interactive questions and cool vibes. Join us or check out the recordings!

Podcast Host

TDA Creative

Skills: Team Leadership · Business Process Design · Business Development · Full Life Cycle Recruiting · Cross-Organization Collaboration

Associate Director, Design Recruitment

77Giraffes

77Giraffes specializes in collaborating with purpose-driven startups and socially conscious brands across diverse sectors. Our portfolio includes ed-tech initiatives for special needs education, platforms addressing teacher burnout, fintech ventures supporting underrepresented communities, and sustainable energy companies. We actively engage in health-tech solutions for universal healthcare access and partner with organizations dedicated to animals, ocean conservation, and addressing accessibility challenges.Committed to a positive impact, we align with brands sharing our vision to build teams of mission-driven individuals. 77Giraffes delivers a tailored approach, assisting clients in solving business problems, scaling successful teams, and providing personalized guidance for career advancement.

Founder, Principal

Salt

Skills: Communication · Coaching · Candidate Selection · Sourcing · Negotiation · Problem Solving · Relationship Building · Business Development · Written Communication · Early-Stage Startups · Niche Talent Acquisition · Candidate Experience · Critical Thinking · Interviewing · Full Life Cycle Recruiting

Associate Director - Digital and UX Recruitment - USA & Canada

Managing Consultant - Digital and UX Recruitment - USA and Canada

Senior Principal Consultant - Digital and UX Recruitment - USA and Canada

Principal Consultant - Digital and Product Design

Salt is a specialized digital recruitment company that represents everything that is innovative. We help companies build creative and digital teams that enable them to create cutting edge campaigns, digital products and services.With headquarters in London, our global offices in New York, Berlin, Singapore and our Australian operation (Sodium) in Sydney we have extensive international networks with over 200 consultants that have successfully completed thousands of searches in over 30 countries including Germany, Sweden, Singapore, USA, Australia, Malaysia and UAE.

Senior Consultant - Digital and Product Design

Artisan Talent

•	Source, recruit, advise and place top talent across beauty, fashion, financial, legal, hospitality and startup brands for both freelance and full time opportunities. •	Manage both client and talent relationships; help each to identify their needs, goals and requirements for either filling a role or enhancing their careers. •	Network amongst NYC startup scene to expand client and talent base. •	Concept new and creative weekly email content to attract and engage clientele.

Creative Recruiter

WayBetter is a behavior change company going after the fragmented $78B weight-loss space, which is fraught with ineffective solutions. Our novel solution is a mix of gamification, social support, and financial incentives. It works! We’ve had 1.2M users and sky-high efficacy and engagement: players lose 14% of their weight in six months and take 37% more steps a day. Bootstrapped to 50 employees with $7.5M from angels. Founder dropped out of HBS to launch his first startup which he sold for $33M.

Want to join a passionate, supertalented team applying fun and innovation to empower people to live better? We're hiring!!

WayBetter

•	Provide world-class customer service and tech support to thousands of player’s world wide as well as referee DietBet games and verify player weigh-ins. •	Identify successful participants and positively address players about joining our Hall of Fame. •	Monitor game pages for recurring problems and complaints and report trends to the proper team members.

Customer & Tech Support Specialist

*Acquired by iCIMS* We are the Talent Cloud company that empowers organizations to attract, engage, hire, and advance the right talent that builds a winning workforce.

Jibe, Inc.

•	Responsible for bringing in and overseeing $2.5M in revenue for 2013 across several Fortune 1000 companies.•	Develop and continuously modify monthly plans as needed on behalf of predetermined budgets to enhance and improve an account's performance. •	Transcribe and edit job descriptions for national brands to improve ROI through SEO and SEM.•	Recruit and assemble team of young interns, facilitate in person trainings, monitor activity and manage all communications to Jibe's roster of interns.•	Maintain and expand productive, professional relationships with clients.•	Proactively assess, clarify, and validate client needs on an ongoing basis.•	Identify and grow opportunities with sales teams to ensure growth attainment/generate new business.•	Forecast and generate projections based on historical and current content, trends, and activity to develop optimal strategies.

Sr. Account Manager

•	Managed and oversaw social platforms including multiple Twitter accounts and Facebook pages.

Social Media and Marketing Specialist

The Fresh Market

•	Leveraged marketing and consultative selling skills to drive new and repeat business.•	Acknowledged for ability to create a warm, inviting customer environment; redesigned displays frequently to ensure department was always fresh and appealing.•	Organized and managed virtually all day-to-day operations of the department, including inventory management, scheduling, merchandising and ordering.

Floral & Gift Department Manager

KinderCare

Assistant teacher in School-Age classroom 2009-2010. Promoted to Head teacher in Age 3 classroom in 2010. •	Planned basic lessons, redesigned classroom frequently while covering new lesson themes/topics.•	Provided a safe, stimulating learning environment for children ages 2-12.•	Maintained excellent, enduring relationships with an extremely diverse group of parents, families and fellow caregivers.

Child Care Counselor

Erica Fortgang

Lead Brand Designer needed urgently at Airfoil. Must have exceptional brand design portfolio, strong design sensibility, and communication skills. Experience with venture-backed startups/fast-paced agencies required. Lead projects, mentor team, collaborate on cohesive brand experience. Remote work (North America/Europe preferred). No visa sponsorship. Salary: $90k-$150k. Portfolio approval crucial.

Aaron Feng

Rob Rodriguez

Allan Revah

Airfoil is a collective of designers, engineers, and artists helping cutting-edge products in crypto, the creator economy, and future of work take flight. Since our inception in 2019, we’ve worked with 80+ teams to bring their products to market, including Solana Labs, Drift Protocol, Layer3.xyz, Playhouse, Highbeam, and more.

As we increase our involvement in the web3 space and prepare to launch our own product offerings, we’re rapidly growing our Toronto and Singapore-based (but remote friendly) design teams.

As a fast-growing startup, working at Airfoil is both exciting and sometimes challenging.

Chief of Staff

Airfoil

Airfoil is a collective of designers, engineers, and artists helping cutting-edge products in crypto, AI, and fintech take flight. As we continue our involvement in the web3 space and expand our footprint in the world of AI, we’re selectively adding talented creatives to our team.We’re currently looking to hire a talented Lead Brand Designer to join our brand design team.

Lead Brand Designer

# **Lead Product Designer (Remote)**

# About Airfoil

Airfoil is a collective of designers, engineers, and artists helping cutting-edge products in crypto, AI, and fintech take flight. Since our inception in 2019, we’ve worked with 80+ teams to bring their products to market, including prominent blockchains (Solana Labs, NEAR Foundation, Cronos), DAO tooling products (Utopia Labs, Layer3, Magna), DeFi protocols (Friktion, Thala Labs, MarginFi, Drift, Socean), NFT marketplaces and tools (Hyperspace, Hologram, Solana Name Service) Web3 gaming (Planetarium, VBA), Web3 music (Sound.xyz, Decent), and many more.

As we continue our involvement in the web3 space and expand our footprint in the world of AI, we’re selectively adding talented creatives to our team. We prioritize creating a safe and supportive environment, understanding that we are designers second and people first. We're deeply committed to the professional and personal growth of our team. Through active collaboration, design critiques, and feedback, we support our teammates' development in user experience and design thinking. We offer access to learning resources, including 'design jam' sessions, and you'll gain invaluable working under the guidance of experienced founders.

# About this role

We’re seeking to hire a talented **Product Designer** to join our design team.

### **RESPONSIBILITIES**

- Lead projects for the product design team and own client communication + task management
- Mentor and guide fellow team members
- Conduct and analyze results from user testing to translate it into experience design
- Concept and brainstorm UX and UI designs for projects
- Support all aspects of design and production for projects, focusing on innovation and quality
- Provide UX design support

### **QUALIFICATIONS**

- A portfolio showcasing UI and visual design work with a strong design sensibility
- Experience creating experiences for web, mobile or devices
- Ability to communicate design concept ideas through sketches, prototypes and wireframes
- Must be proficient and highly skilled in Figma, Sketch, and other design and wireframing tools
- Ability to prototype in your tool of choice (Figma, HTML/CSS, InvisionApp, Framer, etc)
- Self-motivated, able to work independently but also collaborative and driven by group critique

### ROLE DETAILS

- ***Compensation***: Competitive pay based on experience (DOE). We're committed to fair and rewarding compensation that reflects your talent and expertise.
- ***Flexible Opportunity***: Start as a part-time contractor with the potential to transition to a full-time position.
- ***Global Team***: Work remotely as part of a diverse team spread across 14 countries, contributing to a rich tapestry of cultures and backgrounds.

# How to Apply

If you are excited about the opportunity to join Airfoil as a Lead Product Designer and are ready to make a significant impact in the crypto, AI, and fintech spaces, we would love to hear from you. Please send your application to our hiring team at [natee@airfoil.studio](mailto:natee@airfoil.studio). Use the subject line "Lead Product Designer - [YOUR NAME]" in your email, and link your portfolio. This will help us to efficiently review and respond to your application.

We look forward to exploring the possibilities with you!

Product Design Lead in NYC, hybrid. Must thrive in ambiguity, excel in iOS design, and rapidly prototype consumer mobile apps (health/fitness/mental health/skincare). Lead 0→1 design, collaborate live with CEO/engineers/PMs. No visa sponsorship. Salary: $150K-$200K. Avoid startup novices; need trailblazer, not roadmap follower.

Yaro Zubko

Shape the Future of AI Skincare We’re building the world’s first dermatological-grade AI skincare app—a true disruptor in the $300B beauty industry. Imagine a world where anyone, from the comfort of their home, can scan their face and bathroom shelf, and instantly receive a derm-grade analysis and personalized skincare plan. 💡 “Hey Ashley, we noticed you have dry, dehydrated, sensitive skin. The irritation on your forehead is caused by too much benzoyl peroxide and tretinoin, while your moisturizer lacks the right ingredients to help you tolerate these better. Follow this plan, switch these products, and get real results.” This is the future we’re creating. We are backed by top investors, including General Catalyst, and supported by celebrity advocates who believe in our vision: Skincare access for everyone.

Thea (Stealth)

What you'll do<ul><li>Own &amp; lead the entire 0→1 design function, driving the user experience and visual language for the product.</li><li>Move fast with limited direction. There’s no playbook—you’ll write it.</li><li>Collaborate live—work in sync with the CEO, engineers, and PMs, dropping designs frequently for rapid ideation.</li><li>Design, prototype, and iterate in real-time, translating complex AI-driven recommendations into simple, beautiful, and intuitive experiences.</li><li>Define and implement best-in-class mobile design patterns, particularly for iOS (think Apple Design Award-worthy work). </li><li>Apply cutting-edge interaction design, gradients, gauze, and glass effects, bringing art direction to the product. </li><li>Identify gaps in the design process, ensuring engineers have what they need to execute flawlessly. </li><li>Inspire and lead without a title. Be the person that rallies the team around ideas and pushes best practices. </li><li>Obsess over user experience. We’re not here to make pretty UI. We’re here to solve real beauty and skincare concerns with precision and empathy. </li><li>Get products across the finish line. Know when a prototype, spec, or extra iteration is needed to make execution seamless.</li></ul>

Product Design Lead

Hybrid in NYC Preferred: 2x/week in person. For top candidates, we are willing to accommodate remote candidates if they are on the east coast and can travel to onsites bi monthly

Founding Product Designer needed in SF, on-site 4 days/week, visa sponsorship available. Must excel in UX design, Figma, and have 0-to-1 startup experience. High EQ essential for natural conversation design. Familiarity with productivity tools like Notion or Asana preferred. Collaborate cross-functionally, read code, own projects solo. Salary: $110K-$180K.

Sam Cusano Jr.

Say hello to Blockit: your 24/7 AI executive assistant. It's different because - well - it actually works.Blockit eliminates back-and-forth coordination, learns your scheduling preferences, and consistently surprises you with correctness.

Blockit

Blockit is a Series A, Sequoia-backed LLM productivity startup.We’re building a personalized 'time agent' that autonomously coordinates meetings. Our goal is to use this AI executive assistant to create a swarm network of calendars -- imagine one agent pointed at the world's time. The more people who continue to connect their calendars to Blockit, the more powerful our agentic network becomes.&nbsp;Agents are a completely new interaction paradigm for users -- therefore we do a lot of customer education. We have gotten shockingly far without a designer, but it is time. We are looking for a Founding Product Designer to help us reimagine Blockit's UX and teach the world how to interface with their own time.The ideal candidate would have 2+ years of experience and ideally have worked at an application layer software company.

Founding Product Designer

**Looking for:** Founding Product Designer with AI/LLM interest, complex UI/UX workflow design in enterprise settings, strong Figma skills. Must have B2B SaaS experience, top 20 undergrad, STEM/CS degree, and a stunning modern B2B SaaS portfolio. **Responsibilities:** Build Serval's platform from scratch with founders/engineers. **Location:** On-site. **Visa Sponsorship:** Available. **Salary:** $150k-$240k.

Sonika P.

At Serval, we're building the AI platform for IT teams. Our goal is to take on legacy players like ServiceNow, a $230+ bn company, by building the platform for AI agents to resolve IT issues instead of humans.Serval “automates the automation,” using a natural language-to-code workflow builder and AI agents that discover and deliver automations for tedious IT workflows.Our mission is to free IT departments from the #helpdesk channel by creating the simplest way to automate employee onboarding/offboarding, software access management, and the long tail of employee requests. Long term, our vision extends to developing a universal workflow automation platform for all business functions.Serval was founded by product and engineering leaders from Verkada and is backed by industry-leading investors like First Round, General Catalyst, Alt Capital, and Box Group.

Serval

As Founding Product Designer, you’ll be working closely with founders and engineers to build the Serval platform from the ground up. Our vision is centered around usability, and you’ll be challenged to create intuitive and beautiful interactions that unlock powerful automation capabilities.

Open to visa sponsorship for the right candidate

Strong in-person culture, everyone is 5 days a week in our own office space in FiDi SF (Pine & Montgomery, across from Equinox).

Founding Product Designer wanted in San Francisco. Hybrid work, visa sponsorship available. Must have user-driven mindset, cross-functional collaboration, flexibility & initiative. Key tasks: user research, design system creation, collaborate with Product & Engineering. Startup experience crucial. Salary: $120k-$200k. Genuine interest in early-stage seed startups essential.

Mary Daftarian

Truewind is AI-powered accounting platform. Our product automates complex bookkeeping workflows for accounting firms and their customers. We are a San Francisco-based startup backed by Y Combinator and other top-tier investors.

Truewind (YC W23)

Truewind is growing rapidly and seeking a Founding Product Designer with a background in complex B2B enterprise software. You'll be the first designer to join our team with full autonomy to own and shape design direction for the entire product experience.The ideal candidate is excited to collaborate with engineering, understands accountants and their workflows, and can design with detailed financial data. Our product competes with mature market incumbents, leveraging AI to radically transform the end user experience for accounting firms and their customers.This is an exciting time to join the company, as we've recently closed our Series A round of funding. Our platform is used by top SMB accounting firms looking to use AI to automate complex bookkeeping workflows such as reconciliation, reporting, and compliance. We're onboarding new customers every day, and our product team runs a fast-paced and collaborative process.

Can sponsor TN or H1B transfer but not H1B sponsorship

Experienced product designer. Master UI/UX, build experience, API integrations. Loves design tools, enabling sellers. Modern web tech: HTML/CSS/JS, React, databases, APIs. Work in-person NYC, FiDi. No visa sponsorship. $120k-$175k. 3+ years React, strong portfolio required. Collaborate closely with founders.

Pranaav Deshpande

At Coast, we make APIs visual, enabling companies to create instant and bespoke previews of a true integration for customers. Instead of showing prospects API documentation, customer-facing teams can now demo exactly what their API can do for any given prospect. Sales, marketing and solutions teams use Coast to collapse sales cycles, build pipeline, and offer bespoke solution journeys.We’re trusted by some of the world’s most innovative companies: <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.twilio.com/en-us">Twilio</a>, <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://plaid.com/">Plaid</a>, <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.fisglobal.com/">FIS</a>, <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.zurich.com/">Zurich Insurance</a>, etc., and we’re backed by firms and operators like <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.ycombinator.com/">Y Combinator</a>, <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arash_Ferdowsi">Arash Ferdowsi</a>, <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://calv.info/about">Calvin French-Owen</a>, <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://amasad.me/about">Amjad Masad</a>, <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.liquid2.vc/">Liquid2</a> and more.In 2023 we grew 11x, and in our first year in market signed public and growth stage companies across a number of industries: fintech, healthtech, insurance, unified APIs, transportation, communication and more.

Coast

We’re looking for an experienced product designer to join us as we build the backbone of technical sales. In this role, you’ll contribute to the entire product layout and design system, and will need the ability to think critically about our customers’ goals.By keeping a lean team, we’ve been able to move fast and want to keep it that way with high performers that take pride in their work. The role reports directly to our Founders and will work alongside our team in-person in our NYC office.

Product Designer

NYC in-office. Design world-class reading app, own product design/user research, build design culture. Must have frontend or coding experience, VC-backed startup exposure (seed-Series A), top university CS degree. No visa sponsorship. Salary $150K-$200K. Avoid candidates lacking strong design culture, impressive projects, or obsession with design.

Perch is the first reading app for the Internet — all of your blogs and newsletters in one place. As more writing moves online, we believe this will comprise an increasingly larger percentage of all reading activity, and over time, we will be the #1 reading application/product in the world.We (<a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://x.com/mikemcg0">Mike</a> &amp; <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://x.com/mattmcguin">Matt</a>) also believe that removing friction from the reading experience will expand the market for blogs and newsletters from mostly chronically online people today (where do you find blogs/newsletters if you’re not on X or Reddit?) to the 5+ billion people connected to the Internet.Specifically, we’re focused on removing three key layers of friction:<ol><li>Cost. Writing is shockingly expensive. Twenty dollars for a book or a ten dollar monthly subscription is out of reach for most people. Perch will make it free. Lots of great writers already publish their content online for free, so we'll start with those. Then, once we've hit the scale required to support tasteful advertising, we'll share the majority of that revenue with writers to attract writing that currently sits behind paywalls. YouTube demonstrates how effective this model can be: it'd be silly for MrBeast to paywall his videos today.</li><li>Discovery.&nbsp;Writing is scattered across millions of websites, newspapers, magazines, and books. Perch will index it all and show you exactly what you want to read, before you even knew you wanted to read it.</li><li>Ease of use. Highlighting, picking up where you left off, audio, summarizing, themes, fonts, adjustable text sizes, and bookmarking should all be seamless. And if your grandma can't figure out how to do it, it's too hard!</li></ol>But don’t take our word for it, try the app for yourself <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://perch.app/">here</a>.A few dozen people are already using it almost every day even though we just released it to the app store a few weeks ago and have done very little to promote it. Our sole focus right now is getting the product to organic exponential growth solely via word of mouth. Some people are sharing it with friends already, but it’s not quite there yet.One more thingWe built this blog called the <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.instagram.com/startuparchive_/">Startup Archive</a> that has hundreds of thousands of followers across Instagram, X, LinkedIn, Threads, and newsletter.It began as a way to dogfood our product and put ourselves in the shoes of people who write on line, but it has grown into this incredible distribution asset that can help share Perch with the millions of people it reaches per month.We haven’t promoted Perch yet though. We’re waiting until the product is good enough to grow organically through word of mouth before pouring gasoline on it.

Perch

Your sole responsibility as our Founding Designer will be to design the most beautiful and useful reading app in the world. This includes individual contributor responsibilities such as owning all things product design and user research. But you will also be responsible for building a design culture of incredibly exacting craftsmanship. If the design of Perch isn’t world-class, the probability of us serving a billion users is zero.We are biased, but we genuinely believe this is one of the most exciting design opportunities in tech. It’s an opportunity to do the best work of your life and build a product that impacts billions of people, while making the whole word smarter. Financially you can view it as compressing 40+ working years into 2-4 really intense ones. Here are the assumptions that have to hold for Perch to be a $100 billion company, based on the fact that Spotify is valued at $100 billion with 640 million MAUs:<ol><li>640 million MAUs: Hundreds of millions of people already read blogs and newsletters, and we think we can grow the market to 1 billion+ by removing discovery/cost friction from the user experience.</li><li>$30 ARPU: Spotify currently monetizes at $30 per user and Instagram’s ARPU is $50.</li></ol>But beyond monetary rewards, we believe this is a rare opportunity to do the best work of your life, build a product that a billion people use, become a better designer than you ever could’ve imagined, and cultivate friendships with your colleagues that last a lifetime. If this resonates, we’d love to talk with you.

Founding Designer

# Perch Founding Design Engineer

**What is Perch?**

Perch is the first reading app for the Internet — all of your blogs and newsletters in one place. As more writing moves online, we believe this will comprise an increasingly larger percentage of all reading activity, and over time, we will be the #1 reading application/product in the world.

We ([Mike](https://x.com/mikemcg0) & [Matt](https://x.com/mattmcguin)) also believe that removing friction from the reading experience will expand the market for blogs and newsletters from mostly chronically online people today (where do you find blogs/newsletters if you’re not on X or Reddit?) to the 5+ billion people connected to the Internet.

Specifically, we’re focused on removing three key layers of friction:

1. **Cost**. Writing is shockingly expensive. Twenty dollars for a book or a ten dollar monthly subscription is out of reach for most people. Perch will make it free. Lots of great writers already publish their content online for free, so we'll start with those. Then, once we've hit the scale required to support tasteful advertising, we'll share the majority of that revenue with writers to attract writing that currently sits behind paywalls. YouTube demonstrates how effective this model can be: it'd be silly for MrBeast to paywall his videos today.
2. **Discovery**. Writing is scattered across millions of websites, newspapers, magazines, and books. Perch will index it all and show you exactly what you want to read, before you even knew you wanted to read it.
3. **Ease of use**. Highlighting, picking up where you left off, audio, summarizing, themes, fonts, adjustable text sizes, and bookmarking should all be seamless. And if your grandma can't figure out how to do it, it's too hard!

But don’t take our word for it, try the app for yourself [here](https://perch.app/).

A few dozen people are already using it almost every day even though we just released it to the app store a few weeks ago and have done very little to promote it. Our sole focus right now is getting the product to organic exponential growth solely via word of mouth. Some people are sharing it with friends already, but it’s not quite there yet.

Here are a couple of testimonials from real users we didn’t know personally before they downloaded Perch:

![Screenshot 2024-10-22 at 5.58.06 PM.png](https://prod-files-secure.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/3c6b0f66-1fc2-4f5e-a6eb-4e6501eb366c/56861bcf-f9a5-4c00-a3a9-dd5c98361dba/Screenshot_2024-10-22_at_5.58.06_PM.png)

![Screenshot 2024-10-22 at 6.01.29 PM.png](https://prod-files-secure.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/3c6b0f66-1fc2-4f5e-a6eb-4e6501eb366c/d87561f1-20fc-4513-9f59-47f11bf064aa/Screenshot_2024-10-22_at_6.01.29_PM.png)

![Screenshot 2024-10-28 at 8.06.57 PM.png](https://prod-files-secure.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/3c6b0f66-1fc2-4f5e-a6eb-4e6501eb366c/23a476e4-1978-4833-a774-3d79d3355e7b/Screenshot_2024-10-28_at_8.06.57_PM.png)

We’ve also raised $6M from some of the best VCs in the world — Reddit cofounder Alexis Ohanian’s 776 Ventures, Naval Ravikant, Balaji Srinivasan, and a few other angels.

For more on why we think building Perch is important, read our [mission statement](https://perch.app/about).

**The Role**

This founding design engineer role will be one of first three hires, and we’re in the process of setting up an office in NYC. This role is 100% in-person, and we only plan on hiring people who are so smart/amicable that you’d go into the office on a Sunday just to hangout with them.

We’re looking for somebody who is obsessed with design and loves bringing those designs to life with code. If you’re an exceptionally talented designer but don’t code, that could still work if you’re willing to learn (we’re more than happy to teach you frontend development — it’s not that hard!). Aptitude is more important than experience, in our view.

In this role, your sole responsibility will be to design and help build the most beautiful reading app in the world.

We share the view of Stripe founder Patrick Collison when he [said](https://x.com/StartupArchive_/status/1774403827548242333):

> *“If Stripe is a monstrously successful business, but what we make isn’t beautiful, and Stripe doesn’t embody a culture of incredibly exacting craftsmanship, I’ll be much less happy. I think the returns to both of those things in the world are really high. I think even beyond the pecuniary or financial returns, the world’s just uglier than it needs to be… One can do things well or poorly, and beauty is not a rivalrous good.”*
> 

Working at Perch is a rare opportunity to work on a consumer product that everyone in the world can use. For example, one user shared it with her 60-year-old mom who loves reading Anthony Pompliano’s Substack 😂. And it’s not just that everyone *can* use it, but everyone *should* use it.

The promise of the Internet was to make us smarter. It gave billions of people access to the world’s knowledge in a pocket-sized device.

Yet we rarely feel smarter after using it. It usually just feels like a waste of time.

The problem is the internet has gotten incredibly good at giving you what you want—even when what you want isn’t necessarily good for you. If you can’t look away from a car crash, it will assume you want more car crash videos and show them to you.

Perch will fix this. It might not be as entertaining as TikTok, but you’ll feel better about yourself after using it. Kind of like going to the gym.

And the easier we make it to read, the more people will do it — kind of like how you’ll eat more cookies if somebody brings a plate of them into the office for everyone to share.

Come help us make everyone in the world a little smarter every day!

**One more thing**

We built this blog called the [Startup Archive](https://www.instagram.com/startuparchive_/) that has hundreds of thousands of followers across Instagram, X, LinkedIn, Threads, and newsletter.

It began as a way to dogfood our product and put ourselves in the shoes of people who write on line, but it has grown into this incredible distribution asset that can help share Perch with the millions of people it reaches per month.

We haven’t promoted Perch yet though. We’re waiting until the product is good enough to grow organically through word of mouth before pouring gasoline on it.

NYC, On-site: Seeking entrepreneurial product designer with startup experience. Collaborate with founders, leadership, engineers. Craft brand identity, design systems. Expertise in Figma, UI/UX, mobile/product design. Prototype swiftly. Visa sponsorship available. Salary: $150K-$190K. Must thrive in high-performance culture, understand industrial staffing challenges.

John Falcone

Traba is a technology company that enhances the productivity of the light industrial supply chain. We connect businesses with vetted workers to meet their staffing needs by leveraging location monitoring, predictive algorithms, machine learning, AI, computer vision, and other advanced technologies. Our mission is to empower both businesses and workers to reach their full productivity and potential. We’re proud to be backed by some of the world’s best investors, including Founders Fund, Khosla Ventures, and General Catalyst.

Traba

Traba is a technology company that increases the productivity of the light industrial supply chain. We connect businesses with vetted workers for staffing needs by utilizing location monitoring, predictive algorithms, machine learning, AI, computer vision, and other technologies.


We are looking for an entrepreneurial and experienced product designer to help us reimagine the antiquated staffing industry. Our product isn’t an app; it’s the labor we deploy into warehouses and manufacturing facilities throughout the country (and eventually, the world). In addition to collaborating with software engineers, you’ll also work closely with our field teams to design practical on-the-floor solutions for our light industrial customers. This role reports to our Head of Product (who is also a designer) and brings over 20 years of Series A through D experience from some of the world’s most iconic and successful tech brands. You will also partner closely with our founders and leadership team to bring our product vision to life.

Product Designer, Hedra: Design foundational video creation tools for storytelling and communication. Key skills: GenAI, social platforms, 2+ years in video tool development, adept in ambiguous, fast-paced environments. Responsibilities: End-to-end design ownership, from concept to execution; collaborate with founders and engineers. Location: San Francisco, CA or New York. Type: On-site. Visa: Sponsorship available.

Hedra is a pioneering video foundation model company founded by former Stanford PhDs and backed by top investors at Index, A16Z, and Abstract Ventures. We're building a full-stack creation studio capable of control, emotion, and creative intelligence.We raised 10 million dollars in our seed round to revolutionize content creation. Our flagship product, the Character foundation model, launched in late June and garnered <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/charliefink/2024/08/01/hedra-gen-ai-video-launches-with-10-million-in-seed-funding/">national attention</a>, landing us on the top of Reddit (multiple times!) and Twitter. In early October we released <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://x.com/hedra_labs/status/1841875930299425131">Character-2</a>, which has already produced highly creative and viral <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.linkedin.com/posts/reidhoffman_twenty-years-ago-i-was-about-to-pitch-linkedin-activity-7247686669150117888--ang">content</a>.

Hedra

We're a foundation model company that focuses on character generation. Our video model, Character-2, is capable of turning text and images into longform videos of expressive, emotional performance. 

Unlike other video companies, we're building the whole stack from the video model, to the audio, to the underlying intelligence necessary to drive a compelling performance.

In the long-term, we want to build the platform for automating asynchronous video communication.

We are looking for a Product Designer to design our foundational tools which allow our users to create character videos for effective communication and storytelling. They will create world-class brand, product and user experience directly with founders from 0 to 1. They will report to and work with the CEO.This person will join our smart, energetic team and take a large amount of ownership over the product. They will make a tangible impact on our product quality as they navigate diverse challenges.

In-person in San Francisco (ideally) or New York

Senior Product Designer wanted in SF or NYC, on-site. Must have first-principles thinking, strong systems thinking, and a passion for great design. Experience with data-intensive apps and startup mindset essential. Responsibilities include user research, creating scalable design systems, and collaborating with engineering. No visa sponsorship. Salary $120K-$220K.

Numeric is an AI accounting automation platform, built to take manual work off accountants' plates so they can focus on what’s impactful. Our product is currently used by hundreds of private and public companies to organize their close, automate reconciliations, and leverage AI for auto-drafted flux explanations and technical accounting research.We have experienced founders and are fortunate to be well funded and be backed by great investors, including Founders Fund, Long Journey Ventures, and many founders and CFOs.

Numeric

About the roleWe're growing rapidly and are looking for a Senior Product Designer who loves crafting elegant user experiences, thrives on complex challenges, and builds in a systematic, scalable manner.As a design-first platform, you'll be a key pillar of our team with the autonomy to own and shape design direction for the entire product experience. You'll be a force multiplier who knows how to move fast and is excited to distill complex workflows and data intensive applications into intuitive, delightful experiences. You will inform the role design plays at Numeric and how the team grows with the business.How we work🐎 We get prototypes in front of customers quickly and ship features frequently. We believe this is the best way to learn &amp; iterate.🧩 We invest in common building blocks that allow us to build powerful and customizable features fast and look to constantly improve them.🏰 We work closely with our engineers to discuss tradeoffs and advocate for a quality user experience.🗝️ We empower everyone to have the ownership and tools to do their best work and we rigorously protect the team's time so we can maximize our impact.

Senior Product Designer

# Senior Product Designer

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### **About Numeric**

Numeric is building the modern accounting & finance platform. Companies today depend on Numeric's workflow and data platform to collaborate, monitor and analyze data, and share insights about their financials.

We believe an organization with up-to-date, accurate, rich financial data is empowered to move faster and smarter. Unfortunately, the tools and systems have not been keeping up. The complexity of work and granularity of data has ballooned, and old, slow software and simplistic tools only facilitate the manual work; they do little to solve the fundamental challenges of accounting and finance. As a product-focused company, we know that a great product and engineering team can build the tools to give our users superpowers. We work to free people from the manual and the tedious, and to bring delight to their work.

Numeric is backed by Founders Fund, Long Journey Ventures, and others as well as founders from Ramp, Segment, and more.

### **About the role**

We're growing rapidly and are looking for a Senior Product Designer who loves crafting elegant user experiences, thrives on complex challenges, and builds in a systematic, scalable manner.  

As our first dedicated design hire, you'll be a key pillar of our team with the autonomy to own and shape design direction for the entire product experience. You'll be a force multiplier who knows how to move fast and is excited to distill complex workflows and data intensive applications into intuitive, delightful experiences. You will inform the role design plays at Numeric and how the  team grows with the business.

### How we work

🐎  We get prototypes in front of customers quickly and ship features frequently. We believe this is the best way to learn & iterate. 

🧩  We invest in common building blocks that allow us to build powerful and customizable features fast and look to constantly improve them. 

🏰  We work closely with our engineers to discuss tradeoffs and advocate for a quality user experience.

🗝️  We empower everyone to have the ownership and tools to do their best work and we rigorously protect the team's time so we can maximize our impact. 

### **What you'll do**

- Understand our users and their pain-points, interfacing with our customers & conducting user research, interviews, and usability testing as part of your methodology
- Craft intuitive design sketches, end-to-end prototypes, and high-fidelity flows that are simple and elegant, and solve the most pressing problems our customers are experiencing
- Define and own a scalable and component-based design system and design function, enabling fast execution & future scaling of a broader product and design team
- Work closely with Product & Engineering to ensure we consistently translate complex technical architectures into simple and intuitive user experiences
- Look for creative and innovative ideas inspired by analogous verticals and past experiences, inspiring the team through amazing execution
- As we bring our product to market, support the initial definition & development of our marketing and branding design language

### About you

- **5+ years as a full-spectrum product designer:** you have a deep knowledge of best practices in user experience research, information architecture, and visual/interaction design. Experience building end-to-end prototypes with Figma and other best-in-class design tools.
- **Passion for great design:** you create product experiences that are beautiful and functional (with the portfolio to show for it), with an eye and for clean visual aesthetics optimized for user experience.
- **Strong systems thinking:** you have an affinity for design systems with consistent use of design patterns, colors, & typography, and are excited to participate in technical discussions and advocate for exceptional user experience with keen awareness of tradeoffs and bias for shipping.
- **First-principles thinking:** you can deconstruct complex problems and craft elegant solutions.
- **Startup mindset:** you love jumping in at the 0->1 phase, you’re biased towards quickly launching product, iterating, and you thrive in ambiguous, rapidly-evolving environments. You're a strong, independent individual contributor with acute leadership skills.
- **Bonus points for:** Familiarity with data-intensive applications, engineering concepts, and/or experience as a software engineer; you can translate effectively between user needs and technical realities.

### **What we offer**

- A fantastic office environment in downtown SF (we’re in-person!)
- A comprehensive compensation package including a competitive salary, equity, and full benefits (medical, dental, vision, 401k)
- A conference & professional development stipend + weekly access to our world-class design advisor [Joshua Goldenberg](https://www.linkedin.com/in/nodeone/) (Loom, Slack, Palantir)
- Free dinner any evening in-office
- Unlimited PTO

### How to reach us

If you are interested in joining our team, let’s chat! Send an email and introduce yourself to anthony@numeric.io

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